Profile for EchoParker

The best place to get a play script is always from the publisher. But play publishers are, in many ways, behind the times. It seems obvious e-scripts will eventually be a common thing, and when they are I suspect it will be the publisher's websites that offer them. One publisher that's on their game is Playscripts (www.playscripts.com) - they offer almost all of their titles as e-scripts. Of course, that's of no use to you if the title you're looking for is with

dramamama611 said: "Echo...didn't you just give him a no win situation? You don't like the way he did put it...a possible bway run, but you also slammed his flop route.

 Mama - you have a point. But in my defense, I'm not exactly saying I'd complain no matter what Riedel wrote. I'm just tired of his two go-to columns: "bitchy-bitchy-flop-flop-flop" and "I'm declaring this show the next Broadway h

I guess the time for being baffled at Riedel's lack of credibility should long have passed. He clearly just publishes spin that producers want to see in print. All the facts he provides *could* have led him to write one of his bitchy "here's a flop in the making" columns: a first-time playwright adapting his own book (uh-oh), a book about his own life (double uh-oh), cancels a week of previews to do rewrities, which he's sending from another country because he's unab

Re: The Sting, I read elsewhere (related to this season announcement) that Bob Martin is writing the book. Composer/lyricists I love (working with their director from Urinetown), a book writer (Drowsy Chaperone) I love, adapting a film I... vaguely remember loving. This one has me genuinely excited. 

And several people I know who were involved with workshops of Honeymooners said the material was great. And I know no casts have been announced, but I would pay money to watch Mi

I'm mightily impressed by the guesses (and guessers) on this thread. Halftime I guessed right away, but kudos for Honeymooners and The Sting - both of which I'm convinced are right. And I'll second those saying it's looking like an impressively debut-filled season for Paper Mill. I somehow feel none of the guesses for the rooster or the little men are correct. Wait, has someone written a musical of "Little Men"? The sequel to "Little Women"?? (I kid. Though

KathyNYC2 said: "I saw it in London and it WAS pretty bad...so hopefully they are improving it all with the changes and realized what needed fixing.

The kids all didn't really work in the London production (not that the kids weren't talented but their direction and characters really didn't work as written)..had I not known the movies well, I would have had no idea what they were all about. The Bubblegum kid had one pink balloon.....

I would have pref

GavestonPS said: "I shudder to ask but what's a "29 hour reading"?

 

(ETA I'm seriously asking. So if that was a typo of some kind, I mean no offense.)

 

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Another money quote. And I shall now always here this phrase as Gaveston clearly (and understandably) heard it, as a reading lasting 29 hours. I'm shuddering with you, Gaveston. (Although actual 29-hour readings, in my experience, are very ex

HogansHero said: "Wilmingtom said: "I do understand that going into rehearsal or previews without your capitalization is not unusal.  I still think it's bad producing."

You have every right to, and you may be right, but it is always good to remember that Broadway exists only because of crazy, delusional people. 

 

Hogan scores again. "It is always good to remember that Broadway only exists because of crazy, delu

"I got on the wait list for Bloody Bloody Angela Lansbury, and was very happy when I got a call that tickets were available. I think, in that case, I might have been first on the list. The call came maybe 2 weeks before the event

If you're employed as the "alternate" Christine in Phantom, and you're contracted to perform the role twice a week [I can't remember now whether the alternate Christine does two shows a week, or just one], then you don't get any extra f

For example, in Les Mis, actor Joe Spieldenner is in the ensemble, with featured tracks of Grantaire & Bamatabois. When he's out, three different people are listed in those tracks: one for Grantaire, one for Bamatabois,

Some posters seem (perpetually) perplexed by producers keeping a show open when there seems no hope